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This strikes at the root of the Biggest Controversy™ - if you beat a video game arcade cabinet on an emulator, did you beat it? Things can be named analogously

• mikepurvis 6mo ago
  > if you beat a video game arcade cabinet on an emulator, did you beat it? Yes for the purposes of your own personal sense of achievement, no for the purposes of speedrun records.
• ssl-3 6mo ago
  I have an old PSP that has only ever been used to play emulated NES games. Shall I call it an NES?
  • mghackerlady 6mo ago
    Does it boot straight into NES games? Does it have an NES cartridge slot? Or controllers? What about the never used expansion port on the bottom? Is it in a NES shell?
    • ssl-3 6mo ago
      > Does it boot straight into NES games? No. > Does it have an NES cartridge slot? No. > Or controllers? No. > What about the never used expansion port on the bottom? It does have an expansion port that I've never used. > Is it in a NES shell? No. > [so it's not an NES, then] It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P
      • mghackerlady 6mo ago
        >It does have an expansion port that I've never used. so not an NES one, then >It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P that's fair, I call my switch lite a playstation 7. It'd be disingenuous to present it to others as an NES, however. If it meets most or all the criteria above, then it wouldn't be